McCarthy trashes Scsalise, calls GOP Budget Chair "incompetent"

[Landslide Lyndon]

He makes John Boehner look like Sam Rayburn.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1644019944558829594

[President Johnson]

Thanks for supporting my reelection bid, Jack.

Sincerely, Dark Brandon

[ProudModerate2]

LMAO.
With McCarthy barely getting the Speakership, I knew in-fighting with them was going to happen.
They're a mess.

[Fuzzy Bear]

He makes John Boehner look like Sam Rayburn.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1644019944558829594

This, of course, is gossip, spread by a liberal hack.  Now it may well be true, but there's going to be a make-up session on this.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

He makes John Boehner look like Sam Rayburn.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1644019944558829594

This, of course, is gossip, spread by a liberal hack.  Now it may well be true, but there's going to be a make-up session on this.

I can believe this because the GOP has a history of severe factionalism on this sort of thing. But yeah, there will be a make-up session for this, if it is true.

[Fuzzy Bear]

He makes John Boehner look like Sam Rayburn.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1644019944558829594

This, of course, is gossip, spread by a liberal hack.  Now it may well be true, but there's going to be a make-up session on this.

I can believe this because the GOP has a history of severe factionalism on this sort of thing. But yeah, there will be a make-up session for this, if it is true.

Scalise comes from a poorer state.  He doesn't want to flat-out say it, but he needs to bring home Federal Bacon to Louisiana to maintain his standing for the home folks.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

He makes John Boehner look like Sam Rayburn.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1644019944558829594

This, of course, is gossip, spread by a liberal hack.  Now it may well be true, but there's going to be a make-up session on this.

I can believe this because the GOP has a history of severe factionalism on this sort of thing. But yeah, there will be a make-up session for this, if it is true.

Scalise comes from a poorer state.  He doesn't want to flat-out say it, but he needs to bring home Federal Bacon to Louisiana to maintain his standing for the home folks.

Interesting.
So who do you think is the most (fiscally) hawkish current member of the current upper echelons of the GOP?

[Fight for Trump]

He makes John Boehner look like Sam Rayburn.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1644019944558829594

This, of course, is gossip, spread by a liberal hack.  Now it may well be true, but there's going to be a make-up session on this.

I can believe this because the GOP has a history of severe factionalism on this sort of thing. But yeah, there will be a make-up session for this, if it is true.

Scalise comes from a poorer state.  He doesn't want to flat-out say it, but he needs to bring home Federal Bacon to Louisiana to maintain his standing for the home folks.

Scalise represents the most well-off district in Louisiana that was formerly represented, in its previous form, by Bobby Jindal and David Vitter. He does not need to "bring home the bacon" more than anyone else.

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Fight! Fight! Fight!

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

McCarthy has never been able to unite and inspire his conference, not in 2015, not in 2018, and not in 2023. Every time he stands for leader he was to wrestle for it. Three times he’s been the favorite, and twice he either squandered it or almost did.

[Badger]

Wonder if this type of infighting Might launch a speaker ship fight? Is there anything prohibiting the GOP caucus from doing so? Could Steve scalise throw his hat in the ring by demanding a caucus wide no confidence vote?

[Torie]

Wonder if this type of infighting Might launch a speaker ship fight? Is there anything prohibiting the GOP caucus from doing so? Could Steve scalise throw his hat in the ring by demanding a caucus wide no confidence vote?

A majority of the House needs to vote to declare the position vacant. Then the House votes for another Speaker. McCarthy is not going anywhere.

McCarthy has this problem. He just can't figure out what to say unilaterally that the Pubs want to cut that would seem politically popular. He wants a Dem buy in, and the Dems are not in a shopping mood. They are more in a watch them twist, slowly, slowly in the wind mood. The dirty little secret is that the Pubs these days are as much of a big spending party as the Dems, albeit with different priorities, and where they want to cut is in general politically toxic. What's a guy to do?

McCarthy has the job from hell, tying to herd a bunch of cats, many of whom are rabid and should be sent to the pound. You should really feel empathy for the man.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38310/can-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-be-replaced

[Joe Republic]

You mean to tell me that the party that required an embarrassing fifteen ballots to elect a Speaker is proving to be totally dysfunctional?!

Say what you will about the Pelosi-Hoyer-Clyburn years of supposed "Dems in disarray!!1", they ran an extremely tight ship.  Especially when compared to this sh**tshow rabble of incompetent idiots.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Erskine and Bowles released before 2012 say there is no way to fix long term Economy unless you fix SSA shortfalls the RS passed tax reform with a 20% Corporate taxes but never address SSA we had Boehner as Speaker when there was no Labor Shortages and Paul Ryan that should of addressed SSA they refused to do so and now RS still won't address SSA shortfalls you have to raise taxes on rich

Now, it's even more problematic there are Labor shortages but there are enough rich to collect taxes from

[Sir Mohamed]

Wonder if this type of infighting Might launch a speaker ship fight? Is there anything prohibiting the GOP caucus from doing so? Could Steve scalise throw his hat in the ring by demanding a caucus wide no confidence vote?

I doubt Scalise has the backing of nearly enough R-reps for this. There's a reason he never stood for speaker in January.

[Benjamin Frank]

The Republican infighting is secondary to the issue that U.S House Republicans know little to nothing about public policy. They have no idea how to get out of the box of balancing the budget within 10 years while not raising taxes, cutting 'entitlements' or cutting defense spending.

Partly this is because there is no way to do it, but it would be a mistake to assume that U.S House Republicans realize this, so they are demanding of each other some magical solution while looking to see how they can blame Biden if/when they can't find one.

[DrScholl]

McCarthy doesn't have leadership skills and the Republican caucus is not conciliatory. Even a lot of those who voted for him on every round for Speaker don't really support him.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

McCarthy doesn't have leadership skills and the Republican caucus is not conciliatory. Even a lot of those who voted for him on every round for Speaker don't really support him.

The RS aren't used to a 220 H they are used to a 240 H where they kept Freedom Caucasian at bay, the D's are used to having a 220DH but we don't have large majority because of Gerrymandering but 24 it can be 225DH

No one can seriously deal with the Debt without addressing tax increase even Boehner raised taxes and so did Reagan this R party is so against Raising TAXES and SSA is going bankrupt and Y2K 70M of us are gonna retire starting 2032 when SSA goes broke

Anyways Trump gave out stimulus checks and ran up the largest debt and didn't raise taxes that's why we have Debt Ceiling problem, both Stimulus checks were 1=9T each